2016 NBA Playoff Predictions – Round 1

The NBA Playoffs are here and it is time for your favorite experts to make their predictions on which teams will make it passed round 1! It was another outstanding season in the NBA and we can only hope it translates to the playoffs as well!

First, here are the Conference standings from the East and the West:

And now here were the staff predictions:

A few things to point out:

I was the only one to pick the Knicks to make the playoffs.

We all chose the Bulls.

The Sportz Nutt was the only one to pick the Celtics to make the playoffs.

We all chose the Bucks to make it to the playoffs.

We all chose the Wizards to make it to the playoffs.

None of us chose the Wizards to make it to the playoffs.

I was the only one that chose the Warriors as the 1 seed in the West.

None of us chose Portland to make the playoffs. Umm…how DID they make the playoffs??

We all had the Pelicans making the playoffs.

Alright, now that we’ve got our (mostly) failures out of the way, it is time to pick Round 1! Here we go!